Death
Our life and time are a trust from Allah. In (103:1-3):
When you look back at the past, you hardly remember
the feelings you felt. Nothing remains of feelings except the feelings you felt
for Allah.
Make your concern the hereafter. Ask yourself - For how long will I be the same person? What
am I waiting for?
In (75:14-15):
Everyone is a witness for himself. We all know our
shortcomings and sins. Why am
I persisting in sin? How many acts of worship am I leaving? What am I waiting
for?
In (50:19):
In (62:8):
All of us are going
to die. Death comes to the sick, it comes to the healthy, the poor,
the rich, the messengers, the doctors, etc. There is no one but he will die.
And this reminds you of Allah's name AlHayy. Everyone else will die - so why
should I attach myself to them? In (25:58):
We think death is an
abstract matter. But it's something real - It's a creation of Allah.
Allah said in (67:2):
Narrated that Abu Sa’eed
al-Khudri said: The Messenger of Allah said: “Death will be brought forth in
the form of a black and white speckled ram, and a caller will cry out, ‘O
people of Paradise!’ They will crane their necks and look, and he will say, ‘Do
you recognize this?’
They will say, ‘Yes, it is
death,’ and all of them will have seen it.
Then he will cry out, ‘O
people of Hell!’ They will crane their necks and look, and he will say, ‘Do you
recognize this?’
They will say, ‘Yes, it is
death,’ and all of them will have seen it.
Then the ram will be
slaughtered, and he (the caller) will say, ‘O people of Paradise, it is eternal
and there will be no death; O people of Hell, it is eternal and there will be
no death.’” Then he recited:
“And warn them (O Muhammad) of the Day of grief and regrets, when the
case has been decided, while (now) they are in a state of carelessness, and
they believe not" [19:39]
Death can occur for a
reason or no reason at all.
If Allah wrote that a person would die at a certain time or place, He
will create a reason for the peron to go to that place. So we can't say, "If only he didn't go there..."
Don't give the power to the means - they're just a test for the
people who are alive. Allah is Al-Azeez.
Usamah bin Zayd said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
«مَا جَعَلَ اللهُ مِيتَةَ عَبْدٍ بِأَرْضٍ إِلَّا جَعَلَ لَهُ فِيهَا حَاجَة»
"Allah does not will that a person should die in a certain land but He gives him a reason to go there"
When you know you're going to die and everyone else is going to
die, you will deal with people in the best way – Because you don't know if this
is your last meeting with them.
In (4:78):
How will I
die? Ibn Kathir said,
"Whoever lives upon something will die upon it..."
Death is the
beginning of your Day of Judgement. We have two types of Qiyama:
1) Minor
(i.e. The Individual Qiyama/Death)
2) Major
Your death is a path
to the Major Qiyama – The Day of Judgement.
- The Agony of Death -
Death is the biggest calamity that we’ll face in our lives. It will
attack the body and take the soul from every vein and cell in your body.
You won't be able to think or control yourself. You'll still be
alive - but your actions will be according to what's established in your heart.
So examine your heart now and ask yourself what it's attached to. If it's
attached to Allah, at the time of the agony of death, your attachment will show
on your tongue. The agony of death shows the reality of a person.
You could tell someone to say La Ilaha Illa Allah and they'll be
talking about their business, or whatever occupied their hearts in this world.
Some of the righteous were asked to describing the agony of death
while they were facing it. One of them said, "It
is as if the heavens is on the earth and I'm breathing through a needle"
We need the mercy of Allah. We can't flee to anyone except Allah.
Only He can make it easy for us. So attach your heart to Ar-Rahman, Ar-Raheem.
In a Hadith Qudsi, Allah said: "..I do not hesitate about anything as much as I
hesitate about [seizing] the soul of My faithful slave: he hates death and I
hate hurting him."
-
The Soul -
Don't investigate or
try to find more information about it. Allah said in (17:85):
-
What Happens During Death-
In (56:83-85):
The soul will go to
the throat. The time of death is a critical time - so the people around you
need to be gentle and make you think good of Allah.
The Shaytan will also
be present at this moment. Even at your last moment he wants to mislead you. He
might come in the form of your parents urging you to accept another religion,
or praise you until you get deceived by yourself, etc.
This is frightening,
but attach yourself to the names of Allah Al-Hafeeth, Al-Wakeel, As-Samee’,
Al-Aleem. Only He can protect you from the Shaytan. We need to attach ourselves
to Allah in every stage of the journey because we can’t trust ourselves and our
knowledge. The more names of Allah you learn and act upon in life, the more
power we’ll have during these times – because we’re attaching ourselves to
Allah.
And in a part of a longer Dua:
"و أعوذ بك أن يتخبطني الشيطان عند الموت..."
The Angel of Death is
one Angel responsible for taking all the souls. Allah gave him the ability to
do so, even though so many people may be dying at once. But he won't come
alone. He has other helpers from the Angels.
The Angel of Death
will sit behind your head and the helpers will fill the room to where your
sight extends. No one can see these Angels except the dying person.
Sometimes Allah may
allow situation to happen to increase us in certainty. A lady was dying and her husband was next to her. Suddenly she
told her husband to cover her - she could see a man and she was not wearing
Hijab. And then she died.
Don't ever give up your religion for human beings, because no one
will face your death except you.
In (75:26-30):
-
The Death of the Believer -
The Angels will descend with faces as bright as the sun and sit
around you as far as your eye can see. The Angel of death will sit behind you
head and say, “Good soul, come out
to forgiveness and pleasure from Allah!”
Your soul will go out
like water flowing out of the mouth of a water skin - without any difficulty.
In (89:27-30):
You'll want to die
because you want to meet Allah.
The soul will not
remain with the Angel of Death for not even a blink of an eye. It'll go to the
other Angels almost immediately. They'll put it in a shroud from Paradise and
perfume it with the sweetest smell of musk.
And then your body
becomes the body. The first thing detached from you is your name. So the angels
take care of the soul, and the people take care of the body.
Most of our concern
in life revolves around our body - but it will be put in the ground in the end.
If there was value in it, it wouldn't be put in the dust, it wouldn't decay.
What's important is our soul. It goes up. In (91:9-10):
And Allah said in (7:26):
One mistake we do is
that we give ourselves a title before we die. Whenever the thought comes to you
that you're a good person, then remind yourself that you're still alive - You
don't know. But when you die your test is over. You know your value now. The Angels will come, and you won't feel
alone. They'll give you the glad tidings. In (41:30-32):
In life everything
affects our body, and then accordingly our soul. In the hereafter everything is focused on our soul, and you'll see
the effect of it on the body. That's why we may see a person smiling while
dead. On the Day of Judgement, it'll be united. In (50:22):
Now we feel like
we're there but not really there. On the Day of Judgement it'll all be united
and real.
The believer will
want everything to be done quickly because he wants to go to his place in
Paradise; he wants to meet Allah.
The Angels will shroud the believer’s soul and
take him up to the heavens. Every time you go up in an elevator, or a plane,
remember this. You will reach the first heaven, and there are gates.
The keepers of the
first heaven will say, "Who is this good soul?" And the Angels will
say, "This is the soul so and so" and call you with the best names
you were called in this world. The same thing will happen in the second heaven,
the third, fourth, - until you reach the seventh heaven. All the heavens will
open for you. And Allah will say:
"Register the
book of My slave in ‘Illiyun and take him back to earth. I created them
from it and I return them to it and I will bring them forth from it again.”
In (83:18-21):
- The Death of the Hypocrite/Disbeliever-
Think about giving
birth - there are births which are easy and others which are very difficult.
Everything in this Dunya is a reminder about something in the hereafter.
The Angels will come
to the hypocrite/disbeliever with dark faces and sit as far as his eye can see.
The Angel of death will say: "O
you foul soul, come out to the anger and wrath of your Lord."
The soul will not
want to come out of fear, so the Angel of Death will pull it out like
multi-pronged skewers being pulled through a wet wool, tearing his veins and
arteries.
In (8:50-51):
The soul will struggle until it comes out like:
And the person will
say - in (23:99-100):
He won't want to
return to increase in the Dunya. Out of Allah's mercy He tells us what will
happen. Why are you wasting your time? Do good deeds. We're still living the
chance.
We need to take
advantage of all the opportunities Allah gave us. With one minute of your life
you can do so many good. We're still alive and can repent. But when the soul
leaves, the time for repentance is over.
The soul is with the
Angels and they shroud it with a shroud from the Hell Fire. People are shrouding
the body, and the Angels are shrouding the soul. It then embarks on its journey
to the sky.
It will reach the
first heaven and the keepers will ask who this evil soul is. They will say
so-and-so and call him by the worst names he was known in this world. The gates
of the heaven will not open for him. In (7:40):
His soul will then be
thrown into his body from all the way up there. Allah sis not oppressing them,
they wronged themselves. Allah is Ar-Rahman, Ar-Raheem, He gave them the
opportunity in life, but they didn't make use of it.
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